El Alma del Ebro, a faceless statue, represents a person sitting on the floor with its legs drawn up to the chest and, to emphasize anonymity, an absent face. The sculpture was created from hundreds of white painted stainless-steel letters, and with an open design so that people can walk inside. When strolling inside, guests can look upward and absorb the enormity of the sculpture’s size. It stands around 40 feet high and 24 feet wide. Each letter measures 25 inches and they vary in thickness. El Alma del Ebro means “the soul of the Ebro” and takes its name from the Ebro River, which runs through Zaragoza, the capital of Spain’s Aragon region. The sculpture, by Jaume Plensa, can be found at Plaza Lucas Miret in Zaragoza, Spain. Plaza Lucas Miret Rodríguez is located in the Expo 2008 area of Zaragoza, Spain. It serves as the address for major landmarks such as the Palacio de Congresos (Zaragoza Conference Center) and the Mobility City Museum. Sitting in the center of the plaza, one can see the circular white outline of El Alma del Ebro. Different sculptures are scattered across the plaza, along with lush green landscaping. The 30-cm WorldView Legion image featured here was collected on May 25, 2025, and has custom processing and color balance applied by Apollo Mapping. (Satellite Imagery © 2026 Vantor)In this monthly article, we travel the world to check out unique, fun and sometimes a bit weird 30-centimeter (cm) color imagery samples from the WorldView constellation. In June, we looked at the Pigeon Towers in Ad-Dilam, Saudi Arabia. For this edition of the 30-cm Color WorldView Image of the Month, we feature an image of El Alma del Ebro at Plaza Lucas Miret in Zaragoza, Spain.
30-cm WorldView-3 (WV3) launched in late 2014, WorldView-4 (WV4) launched in late 2016 and then the first WorldView Legion satellites launched in 2024. Taken together, this is the most advanced satellite constellation the commercial marketplace has ever had access to. Here are a few of the features that really set these satellites apart from the competition:
- Improved Resolution
- Higher resolution means you can see more detail in WorldView imagery.
- Data collected at nadir will have 31-centimeter (cm) panchromatic, 1.24-meter (m) visible and near infrared, 3.7-m SWIR (WV3 only) and 30-m CAVIS (WV3 only) bands.
- Additional Spectral Bands
- If spectral analysis is part of your project, then no other satellite can match WorldView-3 and WorldView Legion with their 8 bands of visible and near-infrared data; and then 8 shortwave infrared bands (WV3 only) which are crucial for geological studies.
- Better Positional Accuracy
- With accuracies of 3.5-m CE90% or better (without ground control even!), the 30-cm WorldView constellation has no rivals for its enhanced positional accuracy.
- Daily Revisits
- With multiple WorldView-3 and WorldView Legion satellites orbiting our planet, daily revisits are available for most locations.
- WV4 is no longer collecting new imagery.
- Increased Collection Capacity
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- WV3/4 feature 13.1-km swath widths (at nadir) with the ability to collect up to 680,000 square kilometers (sq km) of high-resolution data per day per satellite (though WV4 is dead now).
- WorldView Legion features six 30-cm satellites, significantly boosting the collection capacity of this leading high-resolution constellation.
If you are interested in WorldView-3, WorldView-4 and/or WorldView Legion imagery for your next project, please let us know by phone, 303-993-3863, or by email, sales@apollomapping.com.
You can also find more WV3 samples and technical information on our website here; WV4 samples and information can be found here; and then finally here is more information about WorldView Legion.
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